IBM 3930 Laser PrinterThis multi-function, table-top designed, non-impact page printer provides letter-quality text and all-points-addressable graphics. The 3930 is well suited for workgroups in medium-sized enterprises for printing business documents for internal as well as customer use. The 3930 is a low cost host system attached printer with a duplex printing option. Advanced print functions are implemented through the Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS).

The 3930 Page Printer is IBM's new mid-range page printer intended to replace all models of the IBM 3816 Page Printer. This multifunction, tabletop, nonimpact page printer provides letter-quality text and all-points-addressable graphics at a maximum speed of 30 pages (impressions) per minute. It is designed to produce a maximum of 150,000 pages (impressions) per month.

With cross-industry applicability (insurance, finance, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, health care), work groups in medium-sized and large-sized enterprises can use the 3930 for printing internal business, office, and customer documents. Also, the 3930 Page Printer is designed for unattended operation in IBM mainframe distributed, IBM mid-range, and Local Area Network (LAN) system environments. The 3930 depending on model offers simplex or duplex printing, 240 or 300 PEL resolution, and a range of physical interfaces (Centronics Parallel, Serial, Coax, Twinax, and Ethernet).

The IBM 3930 will offer the same paper handling capabilities as the IBM 3816. The IBM 3930 will come standard with a 550-sheet primary input cassette, a 250-sheet secondary input cassette (expandable to 1200), and a 550-sheet output tray (expandable to 1400). Paper sizes up to legal size will be supported on the standard paper handling trays. Letter and A4 size paper is supported for use on the optional high capacity paper trays.

The IBM 3930 has an improved LCD operator panel that will communicate with the user in one of nine languages.

Model Abstract 3930-02DThe 3930 Page Printer Model 02D is a duplex page printer that offers 240-PEL resolution. This model is designed to be used with the Coax and Twinax Attachment options. However, with the ASCII Attachment feature the Model 02D may be used as an ASCII printer in IBM 5202 emulation. A Coax, Twinax, or ASCII attachment feature must be specified on the initial order.

Growth Enablement - ConnectivityThe IBM 3930 Page Printer can be moved from one system environment to another as companies upgrade or change their host systems. The user need change only cables or interface features.

Investment Protection - Strategic Architecture, Industry StandardsThe IBM 3930 Page Printer will support the IPDS* and SCS datastreams in the IBM System/370* and IBM System/390* environments. On AS/400 Systems, the IBM 3930 will support the IPDS datastream. Within the LAN/ASCII environments, the 3930 will support the widely used PCL5** and PostScript Level 1 data streams. This allows easy portability of the 3930 to new applications.

End-User Productivity - Improved Worker ProductivityThe high capacity (up to 1,750 sheets) paper input and high capacity paper stacking(up to 1,400 sheets) reduces the amount of time spent by users adding and removing paper from the printer. Slower speed printers normally have paper capacities of less than 1000 for input and output trays.

Growth Enablement - Increased CapacityThe standard input and output paper capacity of the IBM 3930 is 800 and 550 sheets, respectively. The customer can purchase high capacity input and output features to increase capacity to 1,750 and 1,400 sheets, respectively.

Cost of PrintingThe total cost of printing of the IBM 3930 is competitive with other printers in its speed and usage range. Additionally, at higher duty cycles the IBM 3930 can provide lower cost of printing than the use of multiple slower speed printers.

Business Solutions - Enable Customer's Competitive AdvantageUse of the IBM 3930 rather than multiple lower speed printers can provide the customer with both cost of printing and labor savings. The labor savings is due to less paper handling.

Model Description 3930-02DThe Model 02D is a 240-PEL resolution, duplex page printer. The standard interfaces shipped with the 02S are RS-232 and RS-422 Serial. This model is designed to be used with the Coax and Twinax Attachment options. However, with the ASCII Attachment Feature the Model 02D may be used as an ASCII printer in IBM Quietwriter emulation. A Coax, Twinax, or ASCII Attachment feature must be specified on the initial order.

* The 1200 Sheet Capacity Paper input device does not Support legal size paper.** Paper sizes longer than 297.8-mm (11.73-inch) will print at a maximum of 26.25 IPM

Paper Type:Cut sheet papers (grain long recommended) which are designed for xerographic printers. Preprinted paper, like company letterhead, with ink and paper specially designed and treated for the xerographic process can be used in the printer. Other types of commonly available office papers can also be used in the printer, however a reduction in reliability and print quality may occur.

Xerographic transparencies only are supported. The Xerographic transparencies must have a paper backing attached, that is no heavier than 24#. Only labels designed for Xerographic printers may be used. Labels must be on carrier sheets.

LimitationsThe IBM 3930 page printable area is limited within 4.2mm (0.165 inch's) of any page edge. Attempts to print to the paper edge may result in loss of information or print quality degradation within this boundary and paper handling degradation.

The use of some non-xerographic papers may affect feed reliability or print quality. The print on a non-xerographic paper may appear lighter than on xerographic paper. Also, non-xerographic papers that are printed on both sides of a page (duplex), may have a different level of darkness when one side of the page is compared to the other.

Legal size paper is not supported on the High Capacity Input and High Capacity Output paper trays.

Font SupportThe model 02D has the same resident EBCDIC and ASCII fonts as the IBM 3812 and IBM 3816. Additionally, the model02D features identical host download font support to the IBM 3812 and 3816. For further information please consult either of the following: "3812 and 3816 Page Printers Font Reference" (GA34-2111) "3930 Page Printer Font Reference and Font Management System User's Guide" (GA24-4376)

240 PEL Font Management SystemThis Program Product was created for the IBM 3816. It may be used with the IBM 3930 model 02D for customizing of 240PEL fonts. Some highlights are shown below: User-friendly interface including Mouse support. Duplication and Backup of Printer Operating Diskette. Creation and Editing of fonts including: Conversion of feature fonts to printer resident fonts. Import scanned images such as signatures. Extended editing commands including lines, ellipses, area fill, inversion, shifting, skewing, bolding, and scaling.

Requires an IBM PS/2 Model 30-286 or higher with a 3.5-inch 1.44M drive, using DOS 3.3 or later or OS/2(DOSCompatibility Mode Only). Model 30-286 or higher with a 3.5-inch 1.44M drive (3816) or a Graphic character editing maybe performed using a VGA or CGA display adapter. Orders should be placed on AAS for Feature #9501.

Advanced Function Printing (AFP) Core Interchange FontsThe AFP Core Interchange Latin 1 and Symbol character sets are available in 240 Dot-Per-Inch raster format via diskettes (#4850) for each of the following type families: Times New Roman Courier Helvetica

These resident AFP Core Interchange Fonts are supported only on Coax attached (FC #9476) Models 02S and 02D printers that operate under PSF/MVS. The 85 MB Hard Drive (#9225) must be installed to load the fonts into the printer from the diskettes. For further information please refer to the following IBM publications: S544-3708 About Type: IBM's Technical Reference for Core Interchange Digitized Type S544-3802 About Type: IBM's Code Pages for Digitized Type G544-3804 About Type: IBM's Quick Reference for IBM Core Interchange Fonts G544-3710 About Type: IBM's Samples of Core Interchange Digitized Type

Double-Byte Character Set Font Download Support

Overlay CachingThis option on the Page Printer Operational Diskette allows the user to select the number of overlays that will be stored in the printer's random access memory (RAM). By selecting this option, printer performance may improve by saving the specified number of overlays in RAM. Using the saved overlays can be faster than regenerating them from the command sequence each time they are used. Up to four overlays can be saved provided that enough RAM exists to store them.

With this option turned off, each overlay's commands are saved in the printer's buffer that would need to be executed each time. This can be very processor-intensive depending on the complexity of the overlay. With this option turned on, the overlay is generated only once and the bitmap of the overlay is saved in RAM. Each time the overlay is called, its bitmap is simply transferred from RAM to the actual printable bitmap memory area.

If the application uses more overlays than specified in this option, then the overlays are stored in the printer's RAM in the order that the host sent them.

The overlay caching function is available only on the Model 02S and 02D, used with the Twinax Attachment (FC 9217) or the Coax Attachment (FC 9476). The standard code shipped with both attachment features now contains the overlay caching function.

File Management SystemThe IBM 3930 File Management System (FMS) is a utility designed to help you create and modify files for the IBM Page Printer Models 02D, 02S, 03D, and 03S. Since the 3930 Page Printer Operational Diskettes are in a non-DOS compatible format, this utility allows manipulation of the files on the 3930 Operational Diskettes. This program's main intent is to be used to customize the printer default settings via commands that are permitted through the data stream but not through the Page Printer's configuration menu. This is accomplished by running FMS on a personal computer with a 3.5" high-density disk drive and modifying the .init files on the Page Printer Operational Diskette. Other files, such as Page Map Primitive (PMP) - the Page Printer operating system files can also be modified as well. Some highlights of FMS's functions are listed below: Duplicate/Verify/Save/Restore the Page Printer Operational Diskettes. Delete, edit, and move files on the Page Printer Operational Diskettes. Copy files between the Page Printer Operational Diskettes and a PC/DOS library stored on the personal computer's hard disk. Edit (hexadecimal or ASCII) the Page Printer Operational Diskette initialization system files.

Import or export page map primitive (PMP) files between the PC/DOS library and DOS files in either binary or PMP-escape format. PMP-escape format allows a data stream to be sent from a personal computer to an attached page printer (IBM 3930 Models 02S and 02D only).

Coax Attachment (#9476)This feature is used to attach the IBM 3930 to coaxial cabling. This feature is a backpack that attaches to the RS-422 interface. The coaxial interface is used to attach the IBM 3930 to a 3174 Establishment Controller, the 9221 ES/9000 Processor, the 9370 Processor, the ES/9371 Processor, and PS/2 with Microchannel PSA Card. Two modes of operation are supported - SNA Character Stream (SCS) line mode and Intelligent Printer Data Stream(IPDS) mode. The IBM 3930 will emulate the IBM 3816 in SCS mode. Non-GDDM/DisplayWrite 370 Applications are supported in SCS mode. Advanced Function Printing (AFP) support is provided under Print Service Facility/VM (PSF/VM) Version 2.1.1 or higher, PSF/MVS Release 2.1.1 or higher, PSF/VSE Version 2.2 or higher, and PSF/2 Version 1.1.0 or higher. To use GDDM, Release 2.3 or higher should be used. Contact your marketing representative for assistance. Maximum: One per machine. Customer Set-up: If purchased after base machine installation.

Twinax Attachment (#9217)This feature is used to attach the IBM 3930 to twinaxial cabling. With the Twinax Attachment, the IBM 3930 Models 02S and 02D may be attached to the AS/400 Twinaxial Workstation Controller and to 5394/5495 Remote Control Units attached to an AS/400. The Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) only is supported by the Twinax Attachment for the AS/400. Maximum: One per machine. Customer Set-up: If purchased after base machineinstallation.

ASCII Attachment (#7651)This feature must be ordered to attach the model 02D to ASCII devices via the RS-232 or RS-422 interfaces. This feature includes program diskettes and documentation for attachment to IBM PS/2, RISC System/6000, AS/400 ASCII Workstation Controllers, and 3174 Controller ASCII Ports. Maximum: One per machine Customer Set-up: If purchased after base machine installation

8MB Memory Expansion (#9224)This feature is a memory SIMM that provides expansion of controller RAM from the standard 4 MB to 12 MB on all IBM3930 Models. This feature should not be ordered for machines on which the High Performance Package will be installed. The High Performance Package Controller already contains the additional memory. Maximum: One per machine.

85MB Hard Drive (#9225)The 85 MB Hard Drive is used to further increase user memory. The 85 MB Hard Drive may be installed on all models of the IBM 3930. When installed, the Hard Drive, replaces the "B" diskette drive. This feature does not apply to machines that have the High Performance Package installed. The High Performance Package includes an 85 MB Hard Drive. Maximum: One per machine.

High Capacity Paper Input (#7640)This feature provides the user with the capability of holding 1,200/1,140 of 75/80 g/m2 (20/21 lb) paper of letter or A4 paper sizes. When this feature is installed in the alternate (bottom) paper slot, it becomes the primary paper cassette automatically unless the configuration switch overrides the setting. Legal size paper is not supported on the High Capacity Paper Input. Maximum: One per machine. Customer Set-up: If purchased after initial machine installation.

There will be output full sense condition displayed on the operating panel when there is more than 1400 sheets of A4 or letter size output paper in the output bin or the media maximum height of other media is reached. Adjacent print jobs can be offset under host software control so that jobs can be easily separated. Maximum: One per machine. Customer Set-up: If purchased after base machine installation. Field Installation: Yes.

Note: The unit, excluding the output tray, will extend 195 mm beyond the base printer. The unit must be supported by a tabletop or a wire rack if the optional printer stand is used.

Printer Stand (#3050)The stand provides a convenient, movable physical support for the IBM 3930 Page Printer and supplies. Magnetic latching doors provide easy access to a supplies area under the printer. Casters make it easy to relocate the stand and printer. Maximum: One per machine. Field installable: IBM Only.

Primary Cassette (#9496)For replacement of the primary 550 sheet cassette that is offered on the base machine. Customer Set-up: Yes. Field Installable: Yes.

240 PEL 3816 and 3930 Font Management System (#9185)This is a Program Product first offered as an RPQ for the IBM 3812 and 3816 Page Printers. It is being offered as a feature for the IBM 3930. This feature may be used only on the IBM 3930 Models 02S and 02D. This product provides forcustomizing of 240 PEL resolution fonts. Customer Set-up: Yes. Field Installable: Yes.

AFP Core Interchange Fonts (#4850)The AFP Core Interchange Latin 1 and Symbol character sets are available in 240 Dot-Per-Inch raster format via diskettes for each of the following type families: Times New Roman Courier Helvetica

SuppliesChoosing the right supplies is key to customer satisfaction with the IBM 3930 Page Printer. The use of IBM supplies willensure optimum print quality, life of supplies, and machine availability. The use of xerographic paper is recommended. A variety of non-xerographic papers may be used with a possible degradation of print quality.

The IBM 3930, like the IBM 3816, is designed to allow the customer to replace key machine parts and supplies. This results in significant customer benefits, which are improved price/performance, lower service costs, and improved machine availability because the customer performs some printer diagnostics.

The customer must order and keep a spare set of supplies on hand to be used interchangeably in the diagnostics process. Customers who have multiple machines are required only to keep enough spare sets to adequately perform diagnostics on multiple machines. The customer may want to establish a supply agreement with Lexmark or an Authorized Supplies Dealer. Supply agreements often offer customers' price discounts, price protection for one year, establish shipping schedules, and reduce administrative expense.

Supplies SummarySupplies part numbers and approximate average yields are listed below for all models of the IBM 3930, except where noted:

* Approximate average yield has been established with a coverage of 4 percent.

** Approximate average yield for the Models 02D and 03D is 100K

The approximate average yields are not a warranty or guarantee of minimum life, and are provided to assist in initial supplies planning. Actual usage should be used to establish the supply's life in the end user's application. Many factors (for example, print coverage per page, paper type and size, and environmental conditions) can effect supply life.